Joy Quotes - Page 104

Let your joy be unconfined!

The Irish say your trouble is their trouble and your joy their joy? I wish I could believe it; I am troubled, I'm dissatisfied, I'm Irish.

When hecklers stand up, I get a mental jump for joy. It gives me something to get my teeth into - and the audiences love it.

I had been searching for joy in the relatively good times of life, now I had to find joy amidst darkness and agony.

I enjoy not being a public company.

I have no other wish in this world but to find light and joy and peace through Hinduism.

My work gives me a sense of purpose that I never really had before - it gives me a lot of joy, and it would be wonderful to invite other people to get involved.

As I grow through love, so grows my joy, ever more present, ever more constant.

Life without literature is a life reduced to penury. It expands you in every way. It illuminates what you’re doing. It shows you possibilities you haven’t thought of. It enables you to live the lives of other people than yourself. It broadens you, it makes you more human. It makes life enjoyable.

I'd like to add some beauty to life," said Anne dreamily. "I don't exactly want to make people KNOW more... though I know that IS the noblest ambition... but I'd love to make them have a pleasanter time because of me... to have some little joy or happy thought that would never have existed if I hadn't been born.

A time will come when you will find that in gaining a brief joy you have lost your peace forever.

It doesn't matter if you have something greater to say per say, just enjoy what you're doing.

You may imagine the joy manifested by these poor Africans, when they heard one of their own color address them in a friendly manner, and in a language they could comprehend!

You have the choice. You can choose joy over despair, happiness over tears, action over apathy, growth over stagnation.

We know our neighbors - so far as we have the right to know them. We hear of their joys and their sorrows, and hasten to make them ours so far as we may. Life in a small town is like a layer cake. One gets the whole of it, frosted top, lemon filling and all.

Then there's the joy of getting your desk clean, and knowing that all your letters are answered, and you can see the wood on it again.

The joining together of a man and a woman to be legally and lawfully wed not only is preparation for future generations to inherit the earth, but it also brings the greatest joy and satisfaction that can be found in this mortal experience.

We will not enjoy security without development, we will not enjoy development without security, and we will not enjoy either without respect for human rights.

I remember walking into the Bible study. I had a knot in my stomach. In my mind, only weirdoes and zealots went to Bible studies. I don't remember what was said that day. All I know is that when I left, everything had changed. I'll never forget standing outside that apartment on the Upper East Side and saying to myself, “It's true. It's completely true.” The world looked entirely different, like a veil had been lifted off it. I had not an iota of doubt. I was filled with indescribable joy.

I live a very joyful life, with a lot of laughter and good times.

I saw myself as an electronic joy rider.

I wake each day and try to see what I might do that is of some value and joy. It's a strange life. I don't know how long it'll go on. I don't look past tomorrow. Anything beyond tomorrow seems like hearsay. Or fairy tales.

You will never enjoy life if you do not enjoy yourself.

Without joy in your life you are powerless.

The "supreme good" and its attainment -- that is happiness. And joy is: response to happiness.